One Health in Africa: Recognising the Environmental Role

The One Health approach recognises that the fields of human, animal and the environment are inter-connected and inter-dependent. The World Health Organisation defines 'One Health' as an integrating, unifying approach to balance and optimise the health of people, animals and the environment, and highlights that it is particularly important to prevent, predict, detect and respond to global health threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the key One Health concerns have been zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious and vector-borne diseases, food-borne diseases and climate change. Recently, there have been calls for increased attention to the environmental dimension of One Health, which is relatively neglected within the One Health triad at this time. There is a particular need for increased understanding of the shared health threats at the human-animal-environment interface in Africa. This webinar aimed to: • Increase understanding of the current status of research and action on One Health in Africa. • Present selected African case studies, with special emphasis on the role of the environment in One Health. • Bring attention to the under-studied relations between environment and health within One Health. • Engage with priorities and future directions for One Health in Africa.

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MP4 video, Size: 1.59 GB; Duration: 01:26:23

Contributor ORCIDs

Mathee, Angela

; Caron, Alexandre

; Wright, Caradee

; Shezi, Busisiwe

Subject

One Health , Environment , Zoonoses , Pandemic Preparedness , SDG 3

Peer review status

Non-Peer Reviewed

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11911/411
https://youtu.be/Dc6ZfZHsu6c

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